slatey
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In the all but abandoned Revel corporate offices, overlooking a slatey winter sea, two of the remaining Revel employees were waiting for Straub to arrive.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2015
He was trying to fix a mental photograph of a letter—typewritten on paper of dark slatey blue—which he had seen on Hartley Parrish's desk in the library at Harkings on the previous afternoon.
From The Yellow Streak by Williams, Valentine
Her slatey eyes glowed eerily in the buttons' light.
From The Buttoned Sky by Reynard, Geoff St.
Billy Louise laughed a little, leaned, and grabbed a handful of slatey mane.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by Bower, B. M.
A vein, perhaps 5 feet thick, of a slatey substance runs across just in front of us, and contains a well, which is the only sign of fresh water I have seen so far.
From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by Davidson, George
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